Chapter 718: Pre-Battle Preparations

"The first phase of the entire campaign will be divided into two main battlefields, the first battlefield is the army armored group commanded by General Peng Yi on the northern front, and we will mobilize the strength of 3 armored divisions and one armored brigade to the northern front as the main force to encircle and annihilate the Russian mobile forces. At the same time, we will also transfer the heavy artillery and heavy infantry artillery of the northern front from the northern front to strengthen our offensive firepower. At the same time, the assault of the fortress artillery and train artillery units on the core area of the Nebuchu fortress was about to begin. The main task of the heavy artillery unit is to clear all the large-caliber heavy artillery that can be found. I will be in charge of the suppression of the core area of the Nebuchu fortress. General Peng Yi would be in charge of operations on the northern front, while General Ma Yukun would be in charge of the attack on the remaining Russian forces on the southern front. Nie Shicheng expounded the principles of the entire battle plan, and the rest depends on the fighting style of the generals on each front.

First of all, the northern front attack group commanded by Peng Yi, the armored troops drawn from other fronts have begun to assemble on the northern front by rail. This will be the largest attack in the history of the armored forces of the Chinese Republic. In this engagement, the Huaxia Army is no longer satisfied with using the armored force as an attack spearhead, but as a heavy hammer that can crush the opponent's defense!

In the previous battle, Peng Yi keenly felt the poor logistics supply of the Russian mobile troops and the low deployment capacity. The number of armored units of the Russian army is obviously insufficient, and although the number of portable anti-tank guns is large, it is undoubtedly a very troublesome task to transport them to the battlefield and deploy them. The deployment of these weapons also takes time, and what is more important is that it is necessary to find the direction of the assault of the Chinese armored forces. In the contact battle between the two sides, the Russians although they won. However, at the same time, there were many cases where the judgment of the attack side was wrong, and their positions were connected. When people found the opposite tank rushing over, they found that their gun muzzles couldn't turn at all! So a surprise attack is also the key to victory.

The most common way for armored troops to engage is to fight in undefended and wide fields. In this case, mobility and appropriate firepower and protection will be the key to victory. According to Peng Yi's words. Now the armored forces need to throw away everything that is not necessary, including heavy artillery and all sorts of logistics units that can be cut. Bring fuel and ammunition to every bit of space in the hull.

The entire campaign is divided into two phases. The first phase will be an offensive by two armoured brigades, whose mission will be to carry out a tentative attack and lure the opposing mobile forces into attack. The direction of attack is close to the Nebuchu fortress group, and the main targets are transit stations and military stations. In this case, it is very likely that the Russian army will choose to draw troops from the fortress and the southern front to carry out an attack from two directions. The main task of this armored brigade wedged into the enemy's position was to block the enemy's flanking attack and buy time for the main force to detour to the rear of the Russian mobile corps mobilized from the southern front. After eating this elite army again. The entire campaign will enter the second phase.

In the second phase, Peng Yi's armored forces will cooperate with Ma Yukun's troops from the flank and rear to complete the division and encirclement of the Russian army's right flank. Give full play to the mobility advantage of armored forces and launch attacks on their artillery positions, command centers and material transit stations from the rear. and block the opponent's escape north to the fortress. After completely eliminating the Russian field corps, the Huaxia armored forces continued to cooperate with Nie Shicheng to launch siege battles, except for a part. The rest of the troops will be responsible for planting the flag!

And Ma Yukun's troops were responsible for attacking the Russian field corps on the southern front. Because there was no cooperation of armored troops, Ma Yukun deliberately strengthened artillery firepower. After many battles, it can be known that a successful artillery strike does not depend on the total amount of projection, but on the total amount of projection per unit time. Hitting a dozen shells in a minute and a dozen shells in an hour is definitely not the same concept. Therefore, Ma Yukun tried to concentrate enough artillery in the breakthrough area. Because part of the additional artillery was obtained. Therefore, Ma Yukun decided to deploy more than 45 artillery pieces of various types on each kilometer of the front in the main assault area. They will provide adequate fire cover for the infantry.

The second is to pay attention to the coordination of curved artillery and flat-firing artillery. After many battles, the Chinese Army discovered that the mortar that it thought was omnipotent was actually not really omnipotent. This thing is definitely good at dealing with swarming infantry when it is on the defensive. But when it comes to attacking, it's a bit high, not too low. The first problem is that mortars have a limited range, and it is impossible to hit the enemy's first line of defense from the most rear, like howitzers. Mortars need to be constantly accompanied by the troops, and the advance involves the problem of supply.

This is what someone wants to say, any artillery accompanying the infantry must consider supplies, why do you have to take out the mortar to talk about things, the reason is very simple, the accuracy of the smoothbore mortar is relatively low, so it leads to the need to use a cover attack when attacking a bunker. Bunkers are not people. People can be killed by shrapnel. But a direct hit from a cover doesn't always work. War is a two-way selection process, and the Russians, who have fought for many years, have also found that the Chinese Army has a lot of warp firepower. Therefore, the top protection of the bunker has been specially strengthened. This makes it skyrocketing to the level of difficulty for mortars to destroy opponents. Coupled with the fact that the accuracy is not good, the demand for logistics is too great!

At this time, the advantages of the flat-firing gun are reflected, first of all, in terms of attack effect, although the front of the bunker is small, the accuracy of the flat-firing gun is relatively high. And the starting range is far from that of a mortar. So the consumption of ammunition will be much smaller than that of a mortar, and secondly, you can make a monolithic part of the horizontal part of the bunker, but you can't open a shooting hole on the front of the bunker, right? This results in a decrease in defense on the front. Under repeated attacks from high-rate flat-fire guns, even the thickest bunkers can be cracked. For example, in World War II, the Germans used 88 guns to repeatedly attack some of the fortresses of the Maginot Line, and the effect was okay.

Therefore, in this stage of the offensive, the artillery of the Chinese Xia Army will be to use flat-fire artillery to hit the bunkers and mortars to suppress the infantry in the enemy's trenches. As for the 6-inch and 8-inch heavy howitzers, they are used to deal with key support points in the positions of the Russian army. In addition to strengthening artillery. Ma Yukun was also very careful in the selection of assault troops, some of the anti-aircraft guns were issued to the assault troops, and in order to shorten the assault distance as much as possible, the Huaxia Army began to advance the starting position to the front. The sound of digging every day is endless. AT FIRST, THE RUSSIAN ARMY ALSO PLANNED TO COUNTERATTACK WITH ARTILLERY, BUT THEN IT WAS COUNTERATTACKED BY VARIOUS FIREPOWER, INCLUDING 6-INCH HOWITZERS AND 105MM CANNONS. So the result is that the more you fight the Russians, the more you lose.

As for the attacking troops, in addition to carrying common weapons such as machine guns, rifles and submachine guns, they also carried a large amount of explosive equipment, after all, some things such as small bunkers and minefields could not be solved by artillery, and if you were interspersed with trenches, some places also needed directional blasting. These elite infantrymen will become knives tearing apart the opposing line of defense under the cover of artillery. After tearing off, the partition is completed.

After destroying the integrity of the opponent's position, the main force will then be sent to start crushing the Russian army that has been divided, and cooperate with Peng Yi's armored forces to finally eat the Russian army's field troops on the southern front. After completely solving the Russian army on the southern front, Ma Yukun and Peng Yi also have a common task, that is, planting flags and occupying an area. At the same time, a main force will be sent into the vicinity of Chita to encircle another major stronghold of the Russian army

As for Nie Shicheng? He had in his hands the most powerful artillery strike group in the Chinese Army. These train guns, fortress guns, and heavy mortars, which were generally over 10 inches in caliber, would be the terminator of the Nebuchu Fortress. These heavy artillery will first clear the fortress heavy artillery groups on the opponent's periphery one by one. Subsequently, some of the 8-inch howitzers were divided and used to destroy the lines of communication connecting the various support points. Detach these nails from a complete defense system one by one and eventually destroy them.

In addition to these expensive and powerful super heavy guns. Nie Shicheng also added a mobile multi-purpose infantry artillery unit. THIS UNIT IS A 152MM SELF-PROPELLED INFANTRY GUN CONVERTED FROM TANK NO. 1! WHEN THIS KIND OF SUPER DEFORMATION CAR APPEARED, NIE SHICHENG MUTTERED IN HIS HEART, CAN YOU PUT A 152MM HEAVY INFANTRY GUN ON THIS SMALL TURF? Absolutely top-heavy! The so-called protection is an iron box, there is nothing else at all, and the car can only hold 2 shells! When firing the cannon, the bracket should also be put in place. The reliability is also relatively poor, according to Nie Shicheng's words, this kind of thing should not be installed!

But there is a saying that being able to pull out pus is a good plaster. Although there are various problems of one kind or another, this thing has one of the biggest advantages, that is, it can fire a special reinforced concrete armor-piercing projectile weighing 100KG! ALTHOUGH THE FIRING DISTANCE OF THIS BULLET WEIGHT IS RELATIVELY CLOSE TO THAT OF A 203MM HOWITZER, IT IS LARGER THAN AN 8-INCH ORDINARY GRENADE IN TERMS OF POWER! And this thing is cheap and has a certain mobility, not to mention that there is no such weapon that can throw 100KG shells 3KM away and can follow the infantry in the world in Huaxia and Shilu! This kind of Dongdong, which can be used as both flat fire and siege mortars when necessary, is still very useful in siege warfare. Not only were siege troops used, but Peng Yi and Ma Yukun's troops were also equipped with some weapons for use as close-range weapons.

"In that case, let's just take a break, it's a war anyway." Nie Shicheng thought for a while and said. However, this idea is still possible, and sometimes what the attacking troops need is a weapon that does not have a long range, but is powerful enough to fire both horizontally and curvedly. THE 152MM SELF-PROPELLED INFANTRY GUN WAS NEEDED, BUT IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE TURF NEEDED TO BE CHANGED TO A LARGER ONE.

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